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[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 480: Say your prayers, Park Avenue! . . . Tear you a new one!
at tear someone a new asshole, v.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 474: Mr. Manslaughter [...] you wasted some ace.
at ace, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 107: You guys can sit here and fuck-all.
at fuck all, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 382: ‘They’re lawyers. They’re looking for clients to represent.’ ‘I don’t understand.’ ‘It’s simple. They just walk up and say “Hey, you need a lawyer?”’ ‘Isn’t that ambulance chasing?’.
at ambulance-chasing (n.) under ambulance-chaser, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 199: My ass, it’s a possibility.
at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 186: I can’t believe I’m actually driving to Harlem to listen to this asshole.
at asshole, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 215: They got three homicide witnesses over here chained to the fucking desk legs in the Detective Bureau, and they’re going bananas.
at go bananas (v.) under bananas, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 459: Whyn’t you let him sit out here somewheres insteada putting him in there with that buncha bats?
at bat, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 4: They’re waiting for the beano, for the rock fight.
at beano, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 366: You already beat me for half my fee.
at beat (someone) for (v.) under beat, v.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 448: Don’t blame it on us [...] your beef is with Weiss.
at beef, n.2
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 487: Well then, I don’t know what all this goddamned bellyaching is.
at bellyaching (n.) under bellyache, v.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 165: One hundred big ones, Pete.
at big one, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 562: What an amazing array of stuff the cops carried on their backsides. Billies [...].
at billy, n.4
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 115: All he’ll have to worry about is getting to the shopping mall in time for the Early Bird special.
at early-bird, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 388: A childish little American bird—and yet it was humiliating.
at bird, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 372: And if somebody gives you a couple like you and your friend Mrs Ruskin—ayyyyyyyy, Biscuit City!
at biscuit city, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 362: Suddenly the bitch comes out in him.
at bitch, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 535: You were a ridiculous fat blowhard at Buckley and you’re a ridiculous fat blowhard now.
at blowhard, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 40: A big white Pontiac Bonneville came barreling by, a real boat [...] the kind of twenty-foot frigate they stopped making about 1980.
at boat, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 327: They were talking and laughing, with their heads thrown back, blissfully boiled.
at boiled, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 187: So I don’t know what kinda minorities they’re talking about, unless a buncha bongos carrying lengths a pipe.
at bongo, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 235: He works for a goddamned bootlegger!
at bootlegger, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 360: All they lacked was booze so they could complete the picture by getting drunk.
at booze, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 336: Well, I mean I’d heard about Angie and The Boys, but I didn’t believe it.
at boys, the, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 210: And if things break right, you’ll be on to something big.
at break, v.2
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 371: They wouldn’t give you a break even if no one was watching.
at give someone/something a break (v.) under break, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 287: Martin said ‘One a da brothers,’ giving an Irish rendition of a black accent.
at brother, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 653: You know what burned me up? You were right. That was what burned me up.
at burn up, v.
[US] T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 3: Chuck come up to Harlem and gonna take care a business.
at take care of business, v.
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